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#CSUN Prof and soccer/basketball fan. Science teacher, tech teacher, teacher teacher, teacher advocate.Teaching is the solution.
ICE detained a CSUCI prof protesting peacefully. He wasremoving a tear gas canister from under a wheelchair. The feds say he was throwing tear gas at police. You can decide if you believe the consistently violent cops using chemical weapons or the philosophy prof
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The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.
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01.07.2025 11:58 — 👍 5193 🔁 1581 💬 51 📌 113They are saying the quiet part out loud again. We need to get ready.
28.06.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#astrophotography
21.06.2025 01:02 — 👍 59 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0CSU did not 'adopt' chatgpt, they bought a subscription for a half million students ($30 each). It is too expensive - especially now that Gemini is free. But it was a smart move to engage with AI.
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1/7 💔 We are very disappointed to announce that on April 25, NSF terminated a $1.5M PhET grant – our Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems Phase II grant for advancing PhET’s SceneryStack project. Learn how this impacts our work and how you can help: bit.ly/PhETNSF2025
07.05.2025 19:35 — 👍 94 🔁 49 💬 6 📌 31Do you remember when maga would complain that there was no free speech in universities?
05.05.2025 15:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Atlantic talks about the unethical University of Zurich experiment on r/changemyview:
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We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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This statement from the NSF is insane.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry
17.04.2025 11:44 — 👍 1745 🔁 948 💬 53 📌 49
🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪
This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.
"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"
What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?
Facebook post from Bret Bussman showing illustration of 'flat' earth and text "5 Reasons Why I BELIEVE in the Flat Earth (And You Should Too!)
NEW: Minnesota Republicans have elected a literal flat earther to a party leadership post. This is one of many flat earth Facebook posts by Bret Bussman, now the chair of the 7th District GOP. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/16/m...
16.04.2025 15:38 — 👍 525 🔁 201 💬 45 📌 69There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
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AAPT is pleased to announce that the 2025 Paul Zitzewitz Excellence in K-12 Physics Teaching Award winner is Bree Barnett Dreyfuss, Science teacher at Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA. The award will be presented at #AAPTSM25. Read more ➡ ow.ly/vSgF50VwJX2 #AAPTAwards
08.04.2025 16:06 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 1Great choice - Bree is the best!
09.04.2025 17:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
09.04.2025 06:33 — 👍 89031 🔁 27607 💬 876 📌 1267Professors disappearing can’t be good.
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“I think it’s adorable when people think we are going to fix education by improving teachers,” he tweeted on March 13. “Sorry, it’s AI tutors or the slow death of civilization. Those are the choices.”
“First step,” he also wrote in March, “stop teachers from teaching.”
There's still time to join us tomorrow, 3/19, at 5pm PT on Zoom! We would love to have you there. #EduSky
18.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It was great to see how CS can be utilized across the curriculum from art to writing to science. All kids can find ways to use CS. Great job Rudy! #CSforAll
19.03.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
Great session! I loved the attempt to loop the loop while collecting velocity and acceleration.
24.02.2025 05:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great keynote by @galesinatra.bsky.social on science denial at the Western Regional Noyce Conference. Sciencedenialbook.com
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Headed out to the #NoKingsDay rally
17.02.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At Trump's request the army corps of engineers dumped 2.2 billion gallons of water from CA reservoirs. This could have watered 73,000 lawns for a year.
05.02.2025 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Um - the energy is too green? Sounds like an emurgezy
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